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Welcome to PBBans, the PunkBuster multi-stream and live banning pioneers. We offer server admins the ability to stream to multiple anti-cheat sites by using the revolutionary PBBans Hub, which features live banning, live banlist updates, live ban removals and much more.

Setting up your server(s) to stream to PBBans is extremely easy and usually only takes 15 minutes or less from the time you apply until your server is streaming! We highly encourage you to start streaming today as the more servers that stream, the harder it will be for cheaters to find servers they can join. To get started streaming to PBBans simply follow our Beginners Guide. We also offer some other additional guides in our Information Center. Let us know if you can't find what you are looking for as we at PBBans are always looking for ways to improve our services.

PBBans also partners up with competitive leagues to fulfill their anti-cheat needs. For these, PBBans has developed a whole set of dedicated tools, enabling league administrators to unify the server configurations for their players, keep their own league-specific banlist up to date and more, with the least invasive set up for contesting clans. If your league is interested in a partnership with PBBans, contact one of our Staff and we will be glad to assist you.

If you need assistance in streaming or just want to chat with us, join our IRC channel (irc.quakenet.org #pbbans or irc.us.gamesurge.net #pbbans) Click Here or post your questions/concerns in our forums.

News

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Well another year is coming to an end and 2019 is just around the corner.

We came close to shutting down this year but thankfully our host gave us a great deal that cut our operating costs substantially. We also upgraded our forums to the latest version after years of putting it off do to incompatibility issues with the website.

To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to thank you for all your support to keep PBBans alive over the past year and previous years. With our lower operation costs, we hope that we don’t have to consider closing anytime soon.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 2017

Hard to believe 2017 is coming to an end already and 2018 is just around the corner.

Not many changes occurred this year. We had a few close calls of closing so we added subscriptions to help raise donations which gives advanced access to the MPi.

We made our admins aware of our PB master server project that has been running for over 3 years. It's for discontinued games where we host the cheat detection signatures using the last known list before game support was discontinued by Even Balance.

To our donors, streaming admins and other supporters, we wish to thank you for all your support to keep PBBans online over the past year and beyond.

We know it has become more difficult for game communities to financially support PBBans when the games that help build many communities have moved away from Punk Buster, traditional hosted servers and full RCON control. It also doesn't help that people playing games with Punk Buster is on the decline too.

Not sure what 2018 has in store for us but time will tell.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all the staff here at PBBans. All the best to everyone in 2018.

PBBans Funding

For the past 13 years PBBans has been completely independent and we have been free to choose our hosting providers because of the donations from our generous community. However, over the past 6 months the monthly donations have not been enough to cover our hosting costs even with the reduction of the amount required. The additional funds have been coming from the months we exceeded our monthly goal which is now running out.

Over the years we explored many options to help fund PBBans but our primary goal is to keep our services online and ad free without requiring any fees to use if possible. Using advertisements on the website was an option and we did try Goggle ads for guest users but they didn’t work out in the end.

We have had numerous offers from game server providers to host us on hardware they own or rent and we greatly appreciated the offers. We prefer the ability to choose our own hosting solutions and didn’t want to run into the scenario of the GSP no longer wishing to sponsor us and we would be forced to move.

Finally, the number of streaming servers has dropped considerably over the last 8 years and the number of active community members with it. With more new games not using Punk Buster it has reduced the community overall.

If you use our services, please consider donating if you haven’t already done so. To those that have and continue to donate we thank you. Your contributions help keep our community alive.

We have confirmed that long standing Violation #51048 may be triggered by newly released non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our system and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this violation number after May 31, 2015.

37 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.9 Unofficial bans have been removed also.

Viol 81570 and 81576 Bans Removed (BF3)

We have confirmed that Violations #81570 and #81576 in BF3 may be triggered by non-cheat software. These Violation codes have been removed from our system and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised these violation numbers.

81570 bans:

837 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.289 Unofficial Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed also.

81576 bans:

411 Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed from the MBi.143 Unofficial Battlefield 3 Bans have been removed also.

Viol 130846 Bans Removed (BF4)

06/26/2014 21:31:10

We have confirmed that Violations #130846 may be triggered by non-cheat software. This Violation code has been removed from our system and we encourage server admins to give the benefit of the doubt to players who raised this violation number.